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Huntington Library, RS 99. Not previously published.

These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer

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You certainly are the best of all possible men to do another persons business. This letter concerns books which Southey required for his history of Brazil, and which had been left with
Rickman. the book about the Maranhon The Marañón River, which begins northeast
of Lima in Peru, becomes the Amazon River. I knew nothing of. That about Chile did not ask for – because loth to
lengthen the list of what you would have trouble in finding. – But every book relating to the original natives of America has a
direct bearing upon my subject, – it being a matter of much curiosity to find out what they all have in common, – x how
far any similarity of customs – knowledge &c – extended.

Galvam Duarte Galvão (1435–1517), Chronica del D. Affonso Henriques
primero, D. Sancho, I & II,D. Affonso II & III, e Dom Diniz, Sexto Rey de Portugal (1727–1729).
probably escaped your search by his leanness – getting lying hid between two larger books. Whenever he happens to be
seen I do not think Wynn will scruple to frank him down. as he certainly has sent me
as large a frank containing the Double Writer – a right excellent invention. For this
letter, see Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 October [1806], Letter 1223. The ‘double writer’ was most probably an
early version of carbon paper, first patented by Ralph Wedgwood (1766–1837) on 7 October 1806 as the ‘stylographic manifold
writer’.

I am already far advanced in miscellaneous knowledge upon this subject – indeed long ago had read most of the
original historians of the Indies, & marked every passage of importance – so that in them I have only now to run my eye down
the margin, & make my notes from the land marks. The first of next month I begin – & after the first of March do nothing
else – & then for a good book <volume> honestly made – with all in it that can be known.
Before the end of autumn – let me see I write half a quarto sheet a day – exclusive of notes – that is a volume in 136 days. See
how much may be done in a little time by only going steadily straight forward. Give me six months, from St
Davids day – & I will be ready for the Printer with my first volume

If the box was at the Bull and Mouth on <xx> Saturday sevennight last – it
will be here tomorrow. if it went on a Monday it will be a week longer xxxx reaching me – lying so long in London –
A box of materials which Southey required for his history of Brazil. It had
arrived by 24 January, so presumably took ‘a week longer’ and reached him on Wednesday 21 January.